Places to visit! Southern Wales Attractions

Museums Big and Small

With the interchangeable weather of the South Wales Countryside why not consider building in a few visits to our many museums. We have quite a variety ranging from outdoor heritage museums to large cosmopolitan city centre museums and pretty much everything in between. Some of our smaller more hidden away museums offer a fascinating insight in to the people and culture that helped form Wales into what you see today.

A visit to Joseph Parry’s Cottage will take you to the home of one of Wales’ best known and much loved composer, with songs such as Myfanwy still being big favourites the whole world over to this day.

On the theme of Welsh composers what could be more Welsh than Pontypridd? Where the Welsh National  Anthem was composed. Visit the Museum of the History of Pontypridd to find out more.

A stroll in to The Chartist Information and Visitor centre will help you find out how and why the Chartist Insurrection at Newport came close to a full blown rebellion against the Crown.

Chepstow Museum has many displays focusing on the towns fascinating history as one of the most important and strategically placed towns of its day as well as a displays detailing the history of Chepstow’s inhabitants. All this with Chepstow Castle right on the door step too!

If you like your castles directly attached to your museums, then Abergavenny Museum and Castle is the place for you. The Museum is situated within the grounds of the Norman Castle and displays the story of Abergavenny’s historic market town and it’s stunning surrounds.

It might not be where you would expect to find it? But then Wales is full of wonderful surprises! The Nelson Museum and Local History Centre, located in lovely market town of Monmouth, has a magnificent collection about the famous admiral, Horatio Nelson.

Take a further step back in time and visit the Roman Legionary Museum in Caerleon, and learn what made the Romans such a formidable force and see how they lived, fought, worshipped and died.

Some of our larger and more well known Museums that are always worth a visit include; Big Pit: National Coal Museum,   St Fagans National History Museum,   The National Museum Cardiff, and   The National Waterfront Museum Swansea.

For a full list on all our Museums Click on the attractions page or why not Type Museums in to our search by theme option?